Photos: Canuck Henrik Sedin, from boy to man

Bruce Bennett, Getty Images06.24.2010

June 2010: Eleven years after he was drafted third overall by the Vancouver Canucks (right behind brother Daniel), Henrik Sedin poses with the spoils of his career year in the NHL: the Art Ross Trophy (left) as the league's scoring champion and the Hart Trophy as its most valuable player, at the NHL awards in Las Vegas.

Bruce Bennett
/ Getty Images

July 1999: Henrik Sedin meets the Vancouver media for the first time on the West Coast, a month after he was taken third overall by the Canucks in the 1999 NHL entry draft.Ward Perrin
/ Vancouver Sun files

Pulling out from that first photo, the way Canucks fans will always consider the Sedins — as a duo. Daniel (left) and Henrik Sedin at that Vancouver news conference.Ward Perrin
/ Vancouver Sun files

October 1999: MoDo's Daniel (left) and Henrik Sedin spent the 1999-2000 season in their native Sweden with MoDo, as the Canucks let them develop the season after the draft away from the pressure of the NHL.Jeff Vinnick
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December 2000: 'And here's what I want for Christmas, Santa' — Canucks agitator Matt Cooke sits on 'Santa' Henrik Sedin's lap at the Canucks' annual family Christmas party at GM Place.Jeff Vinnick
/ Special to the Vancouver Sun, files

February 2001: Canucks rookie Henrik Sedin signs a team jersey for Brian Scott as a number of players visit the kids at Canuck Place Children's Hospice.Rob Kruyt
/ Vancouver Sun files

October 2001: Lisa Eng is thrilled to get her copy of The Vancouver Sun autographed by Canucks sophomore centre Henrik Sedin after she made a donation to The Sun's Raise-A-Reader campaign.Glenn Baglo
/ Vancouver Sun files

March 2002: Henrik Sedin (left) and his brother Daniel join children at the Fraserview Boys and Girls Club for a coaching clinic conducted by then-Canucks head coach Marc Crawford.Ian Lindsay
/ Vancouver Sun files

April 2002: Henrik Sedin leaves the dressing room at the end of his sophomore season with the Vancouver Canucks.Ian Smith
/ Vancouver Sun files

September 2002: Young Canuck Henrik Sedin and veteran icon Trevor Linden take part in a photo shoot for The Vancouver Sun's Raise-A-Reader campaign.Mark van Manen
/ Vancouver Sun files

April 2003: Vancouver Canucks centre Henrik Sedin puts the squeeze on Minnesota Wild blueliner — and future Canucks teammate — Willie Mitchell during the Canucks-Wild Stanley Cup playoff series that spring, a series that Minnesota would go on to win in the seventh and deciding game.Denise Howard
/ Vancouver Sun files

April 2004: Vancouver Canucks centre Henrik Sedin may soon be the meat in a Calgary Flames sandwich as Oleg Saprykin (left) and Chuck Kobasew close in during the seventh and deciding game of the Canucks-Flames first-round Stanley Cup playoff series at GM Place. The Flames would win in overtime.Peter Battistoni
/ Vancouver Sun files

September 2005: Henrik Sedin strikes a solitary figure astride one of several stationary bicycles in the players' off-ice training area at GM Place prior to the start of the 2005-06 season, when NHL players returned to action after a year-long lockout.Peter Battistoni
/ Vancouver Sun files

September 2005: Henrik Sedin cuts a dashing figure in clothes from Leone in serving as a celebrity model as part of a fundraiser for the Variety Learning Centre and Canuck Place Children's Hospice.Steve Bosch
/ Vancouver Sun files

October 2005: Anson Carter, flanked by Daniel (left) and Henrik (right) Sedin, proves to be one of several wingers who would feast on the puck-distributing skills of the twins. Carter would score a career-high 33 goals in 2005-06, then leave Vancouver as a free agent for Columbus, where he would score a mere 11 goals the next season, his final campaign in the NHL.Jeff Vinnick
/ Getty Images files

January 2007: You had to see it to believe it — Henrik (left) and Daniel Sedin are 'Swedish twins,' but not the type these bachelor party guys were hoping for, in an NHL TV commercial.Ian Lindsay
/ Vancouver Sun files

March 2007: Henrik Sedin gets a love-tap on the head from future linemate Alex Burrows after setting the Canucks' single-season assists record with his 63rd helper of the 2006-07 campaign in a game against the Colorado Avalahce at GM Place.Mark van Manen
/ Vancouver Sun files

April 2007: Henrik Sedin (centre, flanked by his brother Daniel, right, and linemate Taylor Pyatt) celebrates his goal in quadruple overtime in Game 1 of the Canucks-Dallas Stars first-round playoff series at GM Place. Henrik's goal ended the sixth-longest game in NHL history.Steve Bosch
/ Vancouver Sun files

April 2007: Sure, it's a playoff beard, but how well groomed! Henrik Sedin talks to reporters at Vancouver International Airport during the Canucks' 2006-07 playoff run.Ward Perrin
/ Vancouver Sun files

December 2007: Henrik Sedin (right) celebrates a goal by brother Daniel during a GM Place game against the Dallas Stars.Steve Bosch
/ Vancouver Sun files

April 2008: A new generation of Sedin puck wizards? Henrik Sedin watches brother Daniel's daughter, Ronja, stickhandle (as a right-handed shot using a left-curve stick, no less!) as the Canucks clear out their lockers at the end of the 2007-08 NHL season at GM Place.Ward Perrin
/ Vancouver Sun files

October 2008: Henrik Sedin is on the receiving end of a bone-ratting hit from Calgary Flames blueliner Dion Phaneuf during the Canucks' 2008-09 season home opener at GM Place.Steve Bosch
/ Vancouver Sun files

November 2008: Clock watchers Daniel (left) and Henrik Sedin check out the scoreboard during a GM Place game against the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs.Jeff Vinnick
/ NHLI via Getty Images files

April 2009: And then there were three — Alex Burrows (left) joined Henrik (centre) and Daniel Sedin on the Vancouver Canucks' top line during the 2008-09 season. And boy, did it pay off! Burrows, whose previous season high in the NHL was 12 goals, scored 28 times in the 2008-09 season riding shotgun with the twins, and would go on in 2009-10 to register his first 30 goal-plus season. Henrik, meanwhile, had 82 points in 2008-09 in what was at that time a career high for him.Mark van Manen
/ Vancouver Sun files

October 2009: Henrik Sedin with his escort at the Stanley Park Ghost Train, part of the miniature railway in Stanley Park.Mark van Manen
/ Vancouver Sun files

February 2010: Henrik Sedin (left) and brother Daniel sure look familiar, but what about those uniforms? The twins, of course, suited up for their native Sweden at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.Jason Payne
/ PNG files

March 2010: Henrik Sedin is all smiles after scoring in the first period against the visiting Phoenix Coyotes at GM Place on Wednesday, March 30. Going into April, Sedin was leading the NHL scoring race with 29 goals and 104 points.Jason Payne
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Photos: Canuck Henrik Sedin, from boy to man

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